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A protestor holds a sign depicting the Iowa Capitol accompanied by the words "The truth will not be whitewashed" at the Iowa Board of Regents meeting Wednesday, June 11.

Regents pause decision on controversial policy allowing students to opt out of DEI, CRT coursework

The Iowa Board of Regents are revisiting a policy that would excuse students from taking required courses that have “substantial” diversity, equity and inclusion or critical race theory content. The Regents’ June 11 meeting was the first of two readings…

Diversity Straight Up Podcast: Lisha Coffey with Travero

Today’s guest on Diversity Straight Up is Lisha Coffey, President of Travero, a subsidiary of…

Diversity Straight Up Podcast: Okpara Rice with Tanager Place

Today’s guest on Diversity Straight Up is Okpara Rice, Chief Executive Officer of Tanager Place,…

Diversity Straight Up Podcast: Katie Castillo-Wilson of Tap On It

Today’s guest on Diversity Straight Up is Katie Castillo-Wilson, Founder and CEO of Tap On…

Alliant Energy named to 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index

Alliant Energy was recently named to the 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI) for the fifth…

Alliant Energy tower

Diversity Straight Up Podcast: Tina Gridiron of ACT Center for Equity in Learning

Today’s guest on Diversity Straight Up is Tina Gridiron, Vice President of the ACT Center…

Diversity Straight Up Podcast: Maurice Nelson of Sacred Heart University

Today’s guest on Diversity Straight Up is Maurice Nelson, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer of…

Diversity Straight Up Podcast: Joe Enriquez Henry with LULAC

This month’s guest on Diversity Straight Up is Joe Enriquez Henry of the League of United…

Diversity Straight Up Podcast: Janessa Calderon, QC Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

This month’s guest on Diversity Straight Up is Janessa Calderon, executive director of the Greater…

Diversity Straight Up Podcast: Beth Malicki with KCRG-TV9

This month’s guest on Diversity Straight Up is Beth Malicki, News Anchor and Managing Editor…

Inclusive ICR releases Diversity, Equity and Inclusion regional report 

Inclusive ICR, a local coalition with a mission to grow diversity and inclusion in the…

Diversity Symposium keynote stresses health equity

The CBJ’s 2022 Diversity, Inclusion & Impact Symposium kicked off Aug. 17 with a morning…

Laura Jackson, chief health officer at Wellmark Health Insurance, speaks to the crowd assembled at the CBJ Diversity Symposium

Diversity Straight Up Podcast: Courtney Reyes with One Iowa

This month’s guest on Diversity Straight Up is Courtney Reyes, Executive Director of One Iowa,…

LIVE from EntreFest: Diversity Straight Up Podcast with Rajesh Anandan

On today’s episode of Diversity Straight Up, hosts Anthony and Sarika record live from EntreFEST…

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South District Diversity Market returns for second season

The 2nd Annual South District Diversity Market will kick off from 1-7 p.m. May 28…

Diversity Straight Up Podcast: Stacy Cline with GoDaddy

This week on Diversity Straight Up, Anthony and Sarika get under the hood with Stacy…

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